Wildrose+A+Stickies

=Stickies=


 * Please enter each** **Post IT note, according to the topic and number of dots.**


 * Ex:** **Organizational Change Policies: 19 dots** **and then list each stickie comment.**


 * These comments** **are proactive solutions to overcoming a barrier or restraint that informs your role as a coach in the reculturing schools around 21st Century change.**

Geography - Dots 0
 * online help desk
 * create virtual spaces to place PD resources when physical presence cannot be done
 * encourage or requires teachers to go to an underdeveloped school and report back
 * utilize virtual meeting places
 * utilize more interactive collaborative tools
 * create virtual tours
 * intensive block scheduling - choose day, week, hour available and schedule meetings accordingly

Technology Issues (Change, blocking, etc.) - DOTS 7
 * Create a team that discusses technology repair priorities so teachers do not feel ignored
 * Improve "buy in" for teachers by showing student success
 * Do not coach people who do not want to play
 * Have's versus Have Not - Have a computer checkout system with a mobile network card for deprived students
 * Become an activist in your school and community (for tech)
 * Meeting with administrators and IT people together
 * Google Docs

Curriculum - DOTS 2
 * Refocus curriculum on essential questions and big ideas
 * As teachers do PBL projects, a central resource should be created so they do not have to constantly reinvent the wheel
 * Collaborate with staff to identify opportunities for technology integration
 * Build a day or a week for PBL for the semester

Union / Contract Issues DOTS 2
 * Incorporate mandatory PD into the contract for technology
 * Extend the teacher work year
 * No pay for performance

District-wide common vision DOTS 11
 * Better communication between IT and coaches; having meeting driven by administrators to open up communication
 * Required teachers to plan PBL with coach assistance so they can experience it first hand.

School Culture (Trust) DOTS 8
 * Teacher resistance to change
 * Work with non-resistant staff
 * Publicize success
 * Allow teachers choice and input
 * Communicate with building principal to assure his/her awareness of your goals and ask him/her to communicate with faculty
 * Model the technology
 * Share success stories

Scheduling DOTS 3
 * Provide extra planning time to focus instruction and learning
 * Create non-synchronize collaborative work spaces
 * Use signupgenius (tool) to help with scheduling issues and time with teachers

Money DOTS 8
 * Get a million dollars
 * Apply for grants for different technology
 * Incentivize! - Make teachers do something to earn equipment / attend a conference
 * Funding - Actively pursue grant opportunity; provide hard data to administration
 * Collaborate with neighboring school districts to meet challenges of time / money
 * Funding - introduce / provide open source tools (free) for software / programs, equipment
 * Commit set amounts of days/ hours of PD to incorporate technology instruction in the classroom
 * Devote funds annunaly to improve instruction through the incorporation of technology into the annual budget
 * We have not control - buy more?

School Board DOTS 15
 * Include / invite school board to participate in PD or have them come to school to learn how plannig time is used
 * regularly attend and present at meetings
 * tech nights for parents and administrators; have students show them what they do
 * have teachers and students present at school board
 * share with school board actual projects
 * collect data about your work to show the importance

Professional Development DOTS 28
 * Offer it on Saturday with a stipend from EETT PD money
 * Build local learning groups (PLC's)
 * Teacher ownership of PD
 * Act 48 courses that give concrete direction (paths) for changing a classroom into 21st century
 * Increase state-mandated minimum PDE hours (with out increasing current total time of course)
 * Come up with creative PD time / options. (Web-based? Voluntary?)
 * Technology coach plan 1 in-service a year that is teacher run
 * In service training needs to be planned by the people with a "dog in the fight"
 * Offer to provide PD during in-service days. Take initiative with principals / administration. Offer teachers something.
 * Work with administration to plan
 * Train dept. chairs to give PD during dept. meetings
 * share success stones
 * tech training
 * lesson planning by grade level
 * Productive professional development time that allows teachers the time to work on the benefits of technology in the classroom

Communication - DOTS 13
 * Although it takes work, set protocols and be consistent. "I can't do that, but I know someone who can. Here is what you need to do." Stick to it!
 * Weekly (regular) staff meetings with it and professional staff to share current status, issues, etc.
 * Create a wiki that allows teachers to share their ideas of technology in the classrooms
 * Community events
 * Put teachers in the IT departments
 * An improved system to share the resources of technology

High Stakes Testing (PSSA) - DOTS 28
 * Provide committees that develop plans that teach all necessary skills required for PSSA but use PBL during the process
 * Co-teach a PBL activity in which student driven work satifies state standards - But do we test?
 * Collaborate with teachers who use PBL )via interactive due to geography) to teach others the effectiveness of this style of learning, providing support through tech coach (standards-based)
 * Charge (through PDE) state university testing requirements (How students are tested)
 * Keystone exams that actually test for varied learning styles
 * Take first 5 min. each class going over a PSSA lesson whether you are doing PBL or not

Administrative Priority / Vision - DOTS 22
 * Have administrative use technology / participation
 * An established mission statement of administration's expectations with the use of technology in the classroom
 * Collaborative vision sharing sessions to focus future endeavors (admin. vision)
 * Shared vision
 * long term
 * short term
 * push back at the state
 * Get administration involved. Invite them to observe lessons
 * Work on creating a new culture to prepare teachers as well as students for quickly approaching changes
 * Share success stories with faculty and staff
 * Create a teacher - administrative IT task force
 * Create mission statements and action plans
 * Kick off a new school year without mentioning any standardized tests or administrative expectations for improving them
 * Give ETAC (Educational Technology Advisory Committee) a real voice with the school board.


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